On This Day:  May 19

A.D. 715 -- Gre­go­ry II elect­ed Pope. Later can­on­ized for pro­vid­ing bread which, when eat­en, pre­vent­ed sol­diers from be­ing hurt in bat­tle, he un­for­tu­nate­ly took the recipe to his grave.

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